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Section 3: Two New Zombie Types and a Shotgun (d1_town_02)

  • 1 of 13: After gathering the ammo and health scattered about, step through the door that leads outside to witness a very disturbing spectacle.
  • 2 of 13: Several fast zombies (the results of fast headcrabs taking over flayed human corpses) will leap about the rooftops with the greatest of ease, and one of them will soon come galloping up the path straight at you!
  • 3 of 13: Exploring around outside the buildings, you'll find several headcrabs and regular zombies to kill, plus some items down on the large dirt mound under the big water tank (including a saw blade you can use for zombie-killing).
  • 4 of 13: When you're done outside, find the open doorway that leads into a building with lots of washing machines and boxes piled around.
  • 5 of 13: Go through the box-clogged hallway and up the stairs, killing zombies along the way.
  • 6 of 13: Go through the door at the top of the stairs and move around on the rooftop until you see Father Grigori on a nearby catwalk.
  • 7 of 13: Pick up the box of shotgun shells that's on your rooftop ledge, then wait for Grigori to toss you a shotgun. And just in time, too -- several fast zombies attack right afterward.
  • 8 of 13: After that, look around for a new place to travel to.
  • 9 of 13: Right after you reach the rooftop ledge past the second ladder, several more fast zombies will appear nearby and rush to the attack.
  • 10 of 13: After you finish off that wave of fast zombies, you can either take a dangerous shortcut or go inside and use the elevator's control panel to summon it like you're supposed to.
  • 11 of 13: If you skip the shortcut and summon the elevator, two more fast zombies will appear outside.
  • 12 of 13: When the elevator arrives, enter it and use its interior control panel to descend down to an area where there's a poison zombie shambling around near some cars.
  • 13 of 13: Past the fence, find the alley in the back that leads past a side room with supplies and a headcrab and on to Section 4: Street of a Thousand Zombies.